The Government to Return to Work Normally After Negative Coronavirus Test Result

On Thursday we informed that two ministers of the government had possibly been exposed to the coronavirus. The ministers had spent time in a space where a person subjected to having contracted the coronavirus was present.

Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, the minister of social affairs and health (the Left Alliance), was one of the ministers under coronavirus risk. Archive picture: Tony Öhberg for Finland Today

On Friday, the government has informed that the person’s coronavirus test was negative.

The government will return to work normally, but the government plenary session, the Ministerial Finance Committee session and the presidential session on Friday will be held using remote connections.

All government ministers switched to remote work yesterday by the decision of Prime Minister Sanna Marin (the SDP) as a precautionary measure.